Further Analysis of Instructor Training Data

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Following Erin Becker’s analysis of our instructor training data, Byron Smith has done another analysis using survival statistics. The three key figures are:

Long story short, about half of instructors teach within 200 days of certifying, and about half of those teach again with 100 days. If anyone has similar stats from other volunteer teaching organizations, we’d be grateful for pointers.